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# אֲדֻמִּים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H131

**Adummim** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Adummim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/131/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲדֻמִּים: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/131/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. v. מַעֲלֶה sub עלה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Adummim (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 18:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.18.17/#tree)

וְתָאַ֣ר מִצָּפ֗וֹן וְיָצָא֙ עֵ֣ינ שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ עֵ֣ינ שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ וְיָצָא֙ אֶל־גְּלִיל֔וֹת אֲשֶׁר־נֹ֖כַח מַעֲלֵ֣ה אֲדֻמִּ֑ים וְיָרַ֕ד אֶ֥בֶן בֹּ֖הַן בֶּן־רְאוּבֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.turns from.\[the\] north and it.goes.out En Shemesh and it.goes.out to Geliloth which \[is\].opposite the.ascent of.Adummim and it.goes.down the.stone of Bohan the.son.of.Reuben

*JPS 1917:* And it was drawn on the north, and went out at En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

[Joshua 15:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.7/#tree)

וְעָלָ֨ה הַגְּב֥וּל ׀ דְּבִרָה֮ מֵעֵ֣מֶק עָכוֹר֒ וְצָפ֜וֹנָה פֹּנֶ֣ה אֶל־הַגִּלְגָּ֗ל אֲשֶׁר־נֹ֙כַח֙ לְמַעֲלֵ֣ה אֲדֻמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִנֶּ֖גֶב לַנָּ֑חַל וְעָבַ֤ר הַגְּבוּל֙ אֶל־מֵי־עֵ֣ינ שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ עֵ֣ינ שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ וְהָי֥וּ תֹצְאֹתָ֖יו אֶל־עֵ֥ינ רֹגֵֽל עֵ֥ינ רֹגֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.goes.up the border to Debir from the.valley of.Achor and northward \[it.is\].turning to (the) Gilgal which \[is\].opposite to the.ascent of.Adummim which \[is\].from.\[the\] south of the wadi and it.passes.on the border to the.waters of En.Shemesh and they.are extremities its to En Rogel

*JPS 1917:* And the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/131.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/131/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).